Our Homeschool Memorization

Posted on Thursday 19 October 2006 at 7:26 AM - Post Comment

October Memorization
This is what we've been memorizing this month:

BIBLE:

Genesis 1:1-5
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.

POETRY:

My Shadow

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me, from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.

The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow -
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller, like an india-rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.

He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!

One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I 'rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
- A Child's Garden of Verses

SONGS:

America The Beautiful
Crown Him With Many Crowns

There are other things like addition and subtraction facts, skip counting, spelling words etc. but these are the main ones. 

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Posted by katenicholl on Thursday 19 October 2006 at 9:49 AM - Link

Although I don't homeschool the memorising of Scripture is something I am introducing with my little girl when she is doing her homework. You can never underestimate how valuable it is to know God's word.

Catherine :o)